Comix 4.0.4 - 2009-04-03

» Applied a workaround for a bug that caused the "Open" dialog to crash when trying to open a file when the file type filter had been reset to blank. This bug seems to only appear on some systems, probably depending on the installed GTK+ version.

» Fixed a bug that caused the error message for unfulfilled dependencies to not be printed properly.

» The rar/unrar program is now invoked in such a way as to keep broken or incomplete files extracted from RAR archives, since Comix might be able to display parts of these files anyway.

Comix 4.0.3 - 2009-02-22

» Hungarian translation updated by Ernő Drabik.

» French translation updated by Benoît H.

» Added a feature to automatically rotate images according to their EXIF tags.

» Fixed a bug that caused drag-n-drop actions from KDE applications to not work properly.

Comix 4.0.1 - 2008-12-14

» Re-added the "flip pages when scrolling off the page" preference from previous Comix versions. Thanks to Mamoru Tasaka.

» Added a portability module for handling home directories in a more portable way. Thanks to Oddegamra.

Comix 4.0.0 - 2008-12-03

» Comix has been completely rewritten from scratch. On the surface things
look quite a bit like they used to, but the internal workings are
entirely new. There are too many changes for them all to be mentioned
here, but a couple of highlights are a much more functional library and a
new archive editing dialog. The work on this new version of Comix has
been going on in rather sporadic phases for almost two years, and during
that time I have received help from lots of different people. Now, I must
admit, I can no longer remember them all. So instead of trying to list as
many as I can here, I will instead simply say thank you to everyone who
have contributed fixes, patches, suggestions or encouraging words. Thanks!

Comix 3.6.5 - 2008-07-07

» Applied security fix patches to handle unsecure tempfile creation and
character escaping in filenames. Thanks to Mamoru Tasaka and others for
the patches.

» Added a Korean translation by 김민기.

» Added a Persian translation by Maryam Sanaat.

» Added a Indonesian translation by Andhika Padmawan.

» Added a Czech translation by Jan Nekvasil.

Comix 3.6.4 - 2007-05-26

» Added a Russian translation by Artyom Smirnov.

» Added a Croatian translation by Adrian C.

» Fixed a bug in the thumbnailer, comicthumb, failing to create thumbnails for Zip and tar archives.

» Some minor changes.

Comix 3.6.3 - 2007-03-16

» Added a Hungarian translation by Ernõ Drabik.

» Added a patch by Abdullah Hamed that fixes so that the arrow keys can be used to flip pages also when not in fit-to-screen mode when the corresponding preference is set. Just like was possible only with the scroll wheel before.

» Fixed a bug with opening certain Zip files. Thanks to Steve Juranich for the fix.

» When a directory is given as a command line parameter, Comix now
recursively searches for cbr, cbz and cbt files as well as image files.

» Changed install.py so that it aborts installation if the required
dependencies are not found.

» Fixed a bug that caused the space key to not scroll down when in double
page mode and manga mode and the window is wider than the pages.

» Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in WindowMaker that caused problems
when using the "fullscreen as default" preference.

» Fixed a memory leak in the magnifying lens code.

» Some internal and some minor changes.

Comix 3.4 - 2006-07-31

» Added more image data to the properties dialog.

» Added a "delete image" command that can remove single images from Comix.
It is currently not possible to remove image files within archives.

» Added lossless JPEG rotation commands. It is currently not possible to
rotate image files within archives. The `jpegtran` program (part of the
jpeg library) must be present for this to work. Comix can still run as
normal without `jpegtran`, but then without the new JPEG rotation
capabilities.

» Changed the buttons in the toolbar.

» Improved the space key smart scrolling mode so that it automatically
performs all the sideways scrolling as well.

» Added a preference to set the magnitude of the space key scroll in
percentages of either the window size or the page size.

» Added a Traditional Chinese translation by Hsin-Lin Cheng.

» Comments are now displayed using a monospaced font.

» Comments can now be dragged around with the mouse just like an image.

» Directories can now be given as command line parameters as well as
files. If a directory is given it will be recursed into and the first
image file found will be loaded.

» Improved cover guessing of comicthumb and the library a bit.

» Handling of files that have filenames encoded with the wrong
character encoding is now more sturdy.

» Fixed a bug that could cause outdated thumbnails to be left in the
~/.comix/menu_thumbnails/ directory when running multiple instances of
Comix at the same time.

» Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in WindowMaker that caused the "Open
dialog" to be invisible while in fullscreen mode when using WindowMaker.
The same problem applies to the library window, but there is no
workaround for that in place currently.

» Fixed a bug that could cause no images to be displayed when turning
double page mode off, then on again and flipping to the next couple
of pages in that order.

» Some minor changes.

Comix 3.3 - 2006-07-04

» Added a slideshow feature.

» Added RGB colour histogram to the properties dialog. More data will be
added in future versions.

» Added a Catalan translation by Carles Escrig.

» Rewrote install.py from scratch.

» Fixed a bug that caused compressed tar archives to be presented as
plain tar archives.

» Fixed a bug that could cause invalid page numbers in bookmarks when
re-adding an already present bookmark.

» Some minor changes.

Comix 3.2.1 - 2006-06-21

» Added support for the `rar` program in addition to `unrar` to handle
RAR (.cbr) files.

» Updated Polish translation by Kamil Leduchowski.

» Some minor changes.

Comix 3.2 - 2006-06-13

» Changed PyGTK requirement to version 2.8 or higher.

» Added a "Fit width mode" and a "Fit height mode" that automatically
scales images to fit the width or height of the window.

» Default filenames for extracted images are changed to
<archive_name>_<page>.<ext> from <page>.<ext>.

» Moved the manga mode setting from the preferences dialog to the menus.

» Redesigned the library interface a bit. The background colour is now
fixed and does not change with the background colour of the main window.
Default thumbnail size is now 128x128 px, and thumbnails have a border to
make them more clearly separated.

» Added Greek translation by Paul Chatzidimitriou.

» Xie Yanbo updated the Simplified Chinese translation.

» Changed the menu icons for "Open library..." and "Add to library". The
icons are taken from the Silk Icons set at www.famfamfam.com.

» Broken images are now correctly handled by the thumbnail sidebar.

» The workaround against a problem with unrar applied in version 3.1.3 has
been removed again. It created some new problems with archives that
have multiple files with the same filename in different subdirectories.

» Fixed a bug so that translations and extra icons are always available
when running Comix from the source directory, no matter what directory is
the current working directory.

» Fixed a bug in the "Go to page dialog" that caused the page to not be
changed when manually typing in a new page number and pressing Enter.

» Some minor changes.

Comix 3.1.3 - 2006-05-20

» Added Polish translation by Kamil Leduchowski.

» Updated French translation by Achraf Cherti.

Comix 3.1.2 - 2006-05-17

» Fixed a bug which caused ALL files to be added to the library when adding
in recursive mode instead of just archives. Also, only files with cbz, cbr
or cbt as filename extension will now be added in recursive mode to avoid
adding cruft files with the same magic numbers as the archives.

Comix 3.1.1 - 2006-05-17

» Added automatic dependency checking to install.py.

» Added error messages and graceful exit from Comix in the case of missing
dependencies.

» Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in unrar that caused problems with some
RAR archives containing directories with invalid filename encodings. Thanks
to François Ingelrest.

» Updated French translation by Achraf Cherti.

» Changed the "Use stored thumbnails for images in archives" preference to
off by default.

» Changed the "Go to the next archive in directory after last page"
preference to on by default.

Comix 3.1 - 2006-05-04

» Created a new convert dialog that is built from the standard GTK+ save
dialog. It now supports saving in different directories etc.

» Added an "Extract image" menu item that lets you extract individual
images from the archive.

» Added support for recursive adding of archives to the library.

» Added a French translation by Achraf Cherti.

» Fixed a bug which rendered the magnifying lens and the ability to drag
images around with the mouse useless in some situations, and with some
certain versions (7.0?) of X.org.

» Pressing enter in the "Go to page" dialog entry now has the same effect
as pressing OK.

» Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in certain builds of PIL that made
Comix crash when it tried to draw page numbers on thumbnails. Now Comix
simply ignores the page numbers if this problem occurs and imforms the
user that a different version of PIL is required, instead of crashing.

Comix 3.0.1 - 2006-04-14

» Added a Dutch translation by Arthur Nieuwland.

Comix 3.0 - 2006-04-01

» Major cleanup of the entire code base.

» Completely redesigned the properties dialog.

» Comix now stores a list of the 10 last viewed files. It also updates the
~/.recently-used file as is proposed by the freedesktop.org standard.
Thanks to Jose M. daLuz.

» Added an "Add to library" menu item.

» Redesigned the library window slightly.

» Added an Italian translation by Raimondo Giammanco.

» The Nautilus thumbnailer, comicthumb, has been updated by Christoph Wolk
to support subarchives among other things.

» Added a preference to set the size of the magnifying lens. Thanks to
Jose M. daLuz.

» Added a scalable svg icon.

» Improved handling of files without read permission.

» Fixed a bug which caused the recommended name for a converted directory
of images to be the same as one of the image files plus filename extension
instead of the name of the directory plus filename extension. Thanks to
Manuel Quiñones.

» Fixed a bug with the magnifying lens which could appear when using it in
double page mode and manga mode, possibly showing the images as if not in
manga mode.

» Fixed a bug which caused unnecessary reloading of files from disk when
resizing images that is already in memory in double page mode.

» Fixed a bug which could cause the wrong image to be displayed when
continuously flipping forward really fast in cache mode.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.9 - 2006-02-21

» Added a comic book library feature to Comix. Comic book archives can be added to
the library through a dialog or by drag and drop. The comic books appear as covers
in the library window where they can be browsed or opened. They can be easily filtered
by typing in regular expressions.

» When dropping multiple files on the Comix main window, the first file gets opened now
instead of none.

» The convert dialog now saves the last used archive type.

» Fixed a memory leak when creating new thumbnails from files.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.8 - 2006-02-11

» MIME types for cbz, cbr and cbt archives are now registered by default. Use the
--no-mime flag for install.py to skip it.

» Added a thumbnailer (by Christoph Wolk) that lets file managers create thumbnails
for cbz, cbr and cbt archives. Currently it is only supported by Nautilus and does not
affect other file managers. It is installed if the --no-mime flag is not given to install.py.
Nautilus has to be restarted before the thumbnailer is activated.

» Added an option to only display a single image in double page mode if that image
consists of two pages. An image is assumed to consist of two pages if it's width is
greater than it's height.

» Filename is now displayed as well as directory name when viewing images in a
directory in single page mode.

» Changed max zoom to 1000% to prevent X server resource drains.

» F11 can now be used to toggle fullscreen mode.

» Fixed a bug which caused the cursor to be invisible when dragging around an
image in fullscreen mode.

» Fixed a bug which removed the drag and drop functionality.

» Fixed a bug which could cause the scroll wheel to stop working when displaying
the magnifying lens by pressing the middle mouse button, holding down the right
mouse button and letting go the middle mouse button again.

» Fixed a bug which could cause the chess board pattern background for small
transparent images to be zoomed in or out when changing size.

» Fixed a bug which could cause changes of saturation in small images to not be
updated when changing it and changing it back again.

» Fixed a bug which could cause the images to be scaled incorrectly when the "Use
smart scaling in double page mode" preference was set.

» Fixed a bug which caused the thumb selection not to be updated when moving
from page two to page one in double page mode.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.7 - 2006-01-29

» Improved image quality through dithering in 16 bits per pixel. Thanks to John
Ellis, the author of GQview, for helping me with this.

» Added previews of files in the "Open" dialog. Stored thumbnails are used when
they exist, otherwise previews are created directly from the files. Previews of
archives are also available, but only when thumbnails have already been stored
for that archive.

» The cursor is now only being hidden when it has been idle for two seconds
instead of always.

» Changed "Hide cursor in fullscreen mode" to on by default.

» Added chess board pattern as background for transparent images.

» Added file filters to the "Open" dialog.

» Saturation adjustment now affects the magnifying lens also.

» Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by Marcelo Góes.

» Added German translation by Christoph Wolk.

» Added a "comix.xml" file which can be installed to register cbz, cbr and cbt
mime types. Because of inconsistency on some systems, mime types are not
registered by default. Follow the instructions in the mime README file to install.
Thanks to Cristoph Wolk for this contribution.

» Fixed a bug which caused the image width and height information embedded
in thumbnails to be put in the wrong namespace of the PNG tEXt chunks.

» Fixed possible wrong permissions of thumbnail folders on some systems.
Permissions should now always be 700.

» Fixed a bug which caused the magnifying lens to display the wrong page in
manga mode (thanks Christoph Wolk).

» Fixed a bug which could cause Comix to crash when trying to view a very small
image scaled down so that it contained no pixels at all.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.6 - 2006-01-16

» Comix now conforms to the thumbnail managing standard as proposed by
freedesktop.org. Thumbnails for plain image files can be read and written to
~/.thumbnails where they are shared with other applications conforming to
the same standard. Thumbnails for images in archives can also be stored, but
due to limitations in the standard they are stored in ~/.comix for private use
by Comix only.

Comix 2.3 - 2005-12-21

» Added an option to show the page numbers in the upper left corner of each
thumbnail.

» Cleaned up the preferences dialog a bit.

» The arrow keys now flips pages in fit-to-screen mode.

» Added an option to go to the same directory as last time when opening the
"Open" dialog, instead of always going to a preset directory.

» Fixed a bug which caused comments to not be displayed until after all
thumbnails had been loaded when using the "Always view comments when
opening a new file" option.

» Fixed a bug which caused comment files in a directory, had their
extensions been added to the comment extensions list while the directory was
loaded, to not be opened correctly until the directory had been reloaded.

» Fixed a bug which caused the scrollbars to not align themselves
automatically when switching between viewing comments and viewing images.

» Fixed a bug which could cause the wrong image to be displayed if switching
from one page to another and back again really quickly.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.2.1 - 2005-12-12

» Fixed a bug which caused underscores in bookmark names to be shown
as underlines for the next character.

» Fixed a bug which caused Comix to crash when trying to close the
program while loading thumbnails for an archive/directory that was
opened while loading thumbnails for the same archive/directory.

» Fixed a bug which caused some events (e.g. switching fullscreen on/off),
invoked while loading thumbnails, to be delayed until all the thumbnails
had been loaded if they were invoked more than once during this loading.
There are still some issues with events that in themself initiate the loading
of thumbnails (e.g. open new file) being delayed if invoked multiple times
during the loading. This should, however, not be a problem in most cases.

» Fixed a bug which caused some thumbnails to not be displayed in whole
when using certain GTK themes.

» Fixed a bug which caused the selected thumbnails to not be updated
properly when switching between single page and double page mode.

» Fixed a bug which caused the thumbnail scrollbar to not update it's
length when resizing the main window.

» Made the automatic scrolling of the thumbnail pane more consequent
in double page mode.

Comix 2.2 - 2005-12-10

» Added a thumbnail browser.

» Added a "smart scrolling" option for the space key.

» The number pad on the keyboard can now be used to align the image(s).
'1' takes you to the lower left corner, '2' takes you to the middle of the
bottom, '3' takes you to the lower right corner and so on for all nine digits.

» Added an option to automatically open the last viewed page when Comix
is started.

» The zoom in and zoom out commands now zoom straight on, preserving
the alignment of the viewed image(s).

» Fixed a bug which caused the wrong image to be displayed when jumping
two pages forward with the cache option turned on in single page mode.

Comix 2.1 - 2005-11-25

» Made the dialogs more GNOME HIG compliant.

» Added an option to let the scroll wheel scroll horizontally when at the
top or bottom of the page.

» Added an option to let the scroll wheel flip pages when scrolling "off
the page".

» Added an option to use smart scaling when in double page mode and
fit-to-screen mode. The smart scaling feature makes the images scale
independently so that no space is wasted. The largest of the images is
scaled as before, but the smallest in now scaled up to fill any extra space.

» Added an option to set the toolbar to show either icons, text or both.

» The image can now be dragged around with the middle mouse button
as well.

» If adding a bookmark for an archive/directory that is already
bookmarked, Comix now updates the page number of that bookmark
instead of adding a new one.

» Added tooltips for the preferences dialog.

» Removed the zoom entry in the preferences dialog.

» Made the cleanup of files in /tmp a bit more sturdy.

» Fixed a bug which caused the scrollbars to not align themselves
automatically when opening a new archive/folder.

» Fixed a bug which caused changes to fullscreen, fit-to-screen mode etc.
that were made while the preferences dialog was open to be reverted when
the dialog was closed.

» Fixed a bug which caused some images to appear twice if they were
packed in an archive containing multiple subfolders.

» Fixed a bug which caused some strange behaviour when (un)hiding the
menubar after a bookmark had been added/removed.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 2.0 - 2005-11-19

» The text in the comments is now selectable.

» Some minor (mainly cosmetic) changes.

Comix 2.0b - 2005-11-12

» Comix 2.0b has a major speed advantage over previous versions.
I rewrote some of the code, mainly the parts concerning the caching of
images. Page flipping with the cache option turned off is now about
twice as fast as before (not counting the time it takes to scale the
image(s) since this is highly dependant on the image scaling quality being
used). Forward page flipping with the cache option turned on now seems
almost instantaneous (again not counting the possible delay to scale
the image(s)). Backwards flipping with the cache option turned on is no
longer suffering any speed penalty, it is just as fast as normal flipping
without any cache would be. The only occasion when things will be slower
with the cache option turned on is when doing irregular flipping, as from
page 1 to page 7 to page 3 etc., and even then things will seem to be
as fast as normal though some extra work is done "under the hood".
Using cache is strongly recommended from now on.

» Added a bookmarks manager that lets you add or remove single bookmarks.

» Added support for image/x-icon, image/x-xpixmap and image/x-xbitmap
image formats.

» Changed the text entry field for the default path to a button which brings up
a nice standard folder selection dialog.

» The "Flip position of pages in double page mode" option, now called
"Manga mode", automatically aligns the scrollbars to the upper-right corner
of the window when flipping to a new page.

» The "Hide menubar etc. in fullscreen" option now also affects the
scrollbars.

» Fixed a bug which caused temporary files to be overwritten when viewing
two archives in two different Comix sessions at the same time.

» Fixed a bug which caused the separators in the menus to disappear after
a while.

» Fixed a bug that caused the wrong page to be displayed when flipping
backwards one step in double page mode, switching to one page mode,
switching back to double page mode again and then flipping forward one
step, all with the cache option set.

» Lots of minor fixes.

Comix 1.6 - 2005-11-07

» The next page can now be flipped to by pressing the left mouse button
on the main window. Images can still be moved around by clicking and
dragging before you release the button again.

» The "Hide cursor" option now only affect fullscreen.

» Comix now sorts files by the standard set up by the LC_COLLATE
environmental variable.

» Added a new dialog to display an error message if the convert utility
is used in some way to alter a file which the user does not have
appropriate permissions to.

» Fixed a bug with the wrong filename sometimes being shown in the
properties dialog when viewing plain image files.

» Fixed a bug with strange things happening when opening the
preferences window in windowed mode and closing it in fullscreen mode
and vice versa.

» Fixed a bug with the "Hide menubar etc. in fullscreen" option not
always working as expected.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 1.5 - 2005-11-01

» Added support for forward/back buttons on mice that have them.
Thanks to Stephen Jones for this feature.

» New option to set which filename extensions should be treated as
comment files.

» Fixed a bug that caused saved options to not be loaded when the
program is restarted.

Comix 1.2 - 2005-10-17

» Added drag and drop support.

» New error messages for the statusbar when trying to open
non-valid files etc.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 1.1.2 - 2005-10-05

» Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in newer versions of PyGTK, which made
the OK button in the file selection dialog return the wrong value, rendering it
useless. Thanks to neota for this solution.

Comix 1.1.1 - 2005-10-04

» The "file" dependancy is no longer needed. All mime type checks are now
done internally.

» Fixed an error in the .desktop file.

» The install.py script now uses "update-desktop-database" to update the
menus properly.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 1.1 - 2005-10-01

» Support for nestled archives, i.e. archives in archives.

» The install.py script now includes a "--installdir" option to let the user
choose the install directory, e.g. /usr instead of /usr/local.

» Comix now includes a manpage.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 1.0.2 - 2005-09-26

» Added support for filenames encoded with various international
character encodings.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 1.0.1 - 2005-09-19

» Fixed a bug with the background colour option not working as expected
on certain systems.

Comix 1.0 - 2005-09-18

» Added an archive convert feature. Archives and directories can be
converted to Zip, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2.

» More changes toward a hopefully more user-friendly GUI.

Comix 0.9 - 2005-09-16

» A number of efforts has been made to make Comix more GNOME HIG
compliant.

» Added optional menubar, toolbar and statusbar.

» Added an option to hide the mouse cursor.

» The space key now works in fit to screen mode as well.

» Fixed a bug with certain hotkeys not working before the right-click menu
had been shown the first time.

» Fixed a bug with archive names sometimes being displayed incorrectly in
the bookmarks menu.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 0.8 - 2005-09-13

» Comix now handles zip, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives
internally. The unzip and tar programs are no longer needed.

» New option to let you go to the next archive when flipping past the
last page in the current archive, and vice versa for the first page.

» Fixed a bug with small images sometimes being stretched to
fit the screen although the corresponding option was not set.

» Fixed a bug with exiting fullscreen mode with the escape key.

» Supported image formats are now "only" JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and BMP.
There were problems with other files being reported as image files though
they were not.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 0.7 - 2005-09-11

» Added a new "bookmark" feature.

» Now reads any image format supported by gtk.gdk.Pixbuf (that
means most formats).

» Fixed a bug with capital letters not working as hotkeys.

» Some minor fixes.

Comix 0.6 - 2005-09-06

» Added a new option to hide the scrollbars even when not in fit to
screen mode.

» Pressing space now scrolls the page to show the next part of it, if
pressed at the bottom of the page it flips to the next page.

» Dialogs should now look better and use buttons with stock icons.

» Scrolling could be a bit faulty due to different dimensions of the
scrollbars in different themes. That problem is now fixed.

» `Fit width', `Fit height' and `Fit to screen' commands should now be
exact.

Comix 0.5.2 - 2005-08-31

» The makefile in 0.5.1 could in some cases change the permissions
of the folders Comix were installed in to 0755. To solve this
vulnerability Comix 0.5.2 uses a python script `install.py' to install
the program instead.
Usage of the 0.5.1 makefile is not recommended!

Comix 0.5.1 - 2005-08-30

» Fixed a problem with the makefile. Destination directories will now
be created if they do not already exist.

Comix 0.5 - 2005-08-28

» Fixed a bug with the background colour option not working.

» Added a colour picking dialog instead of the old entry box for the
background colour.